From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751426AbWAWIZ1 (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Jan 2006 03:25:27 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751431AbWAWIZ1 (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Jan 2006 03:25:27 -0500 Received: from embla.aitel.hist.no ([158.38.50.22]:40125 "HELO embla.aitel.hist.no") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1751426AbWAWIZ0 (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Jan 2006 03:25:26 -0500 Message-ID: <43D49417.9060204@aitel.hist.no> Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 09:30:15 +0100 From: Helge Hafting User-Agent: Debian Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20051017) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John Stoffel CC: Takashi Sato , ext2-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext3: Extends blocksize up to pagesize References: <000001c61c30$00814e80$4168010a@bsd.tnes.nec.co.jp> <17358.25398.943860.755559@smtp.charter.net> In-Reply-To: <17358.25398.943860.755559@smtp.charter.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org John Stoffel wrote: >Takashi> As a disk tends to get large, a disk storage has had a >Takashi> capacity to supply multi-TB. But now, ext3 can't support >Takashi> more than 8TB filesystem when blocksize is 4KB. That's why I >Takashi> think ext3 needs to be more than 8TB. > >Man, I don't want to even think about doing an FSCK on an 8TB >filesystem running ext[23] at all. > >In that size range, you really need a filesystem which doesn't need an >FSCK at all. Not sure what the real answer is though... > > An fs that allows consistency checking while in use, perhaps? Then it doesn't matter if it takes days, for you can use the fs in the meantime. Helge Hafting